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Hi everyone
I was just wondering what others thought on the problem I am presently having.
We live in a terraced house and on the rear of it we own a row of garages and also the access land in the front of them - we park our cars on the land in front of our garages. Our 2 neighbours' land ends at the back yard gate, however, they have foot access over our land to get into their back yards.
A new tenant has moved into the property next door and she has a young son.
Young children come to our neighbours house to call for her child and they call on their scooters, bikes etc. My new car now has 3 scratches down the side and I have asked the children not to ride bikes, scoot through our parked cars, explaining to them if they scratch them it will cost a lot of money to get them fixed etc etc.
This has been happening now for around 6 weeks and I am tired of constantly telling them several times a day, I ask them and then not 5 mins later they are doing it again.
The final straw came when my sister caught 2 of them actively 'scaring' my ponies (which are kept in 2 of the converted garages) - she moved them on and then, not 20 mins later, they were doing it again!! I called the parents of one of the children and they cut the phone off from ringing (it was a mobile) and didn't bother to answer the landline. I then told their child off.
Since then, the husband has verbally attacked me whilst I was out walking my dogs, both my sister and I have had our new cars 'keyed' and 'someone' has made a totally 'false' complaint to environmental health saying that I swill the stables out (and horse urine) where the children play!! EH visited our property and never left a card - I only found out from one of my neighbours as they had seen the man who visited. I then phoned them, as I suspected that it would be a childish retaliation from my neighbours.
These children play on the vehicular right of way constantly - as the parents can't be bothered to take them anywhere - and they have taken to jumping out in front of cars that are travelling (albeit, no very fast)down this way.
I am now wondering what I can do to stop these children from being such a nuisance as I obviously can't rely on the parents to be responsible for where their children are or what they are doing. My mum heard one of their Mums telling their offspring they "could go anywhere they wanted" - including scooting around my mums car on her drive (which isn't on the r.o.w - it is just not fenced off).
Sorry if I sound like a stick in the mud or anti-children - I am not - I just don't see why I should have to put up with feral children damaging my car when it is on our own property. Their parents park their cars around the front on the public road - so no chance of them playing around their cars!!
Apologies for the long post but this is becoming a nightmare!!I am thinking of installing CCTV so if my car gets damaged again I can see the culprit and bring the parents to book. :rant:
I was just wondering what others thought on the problem I am presently having.
We live in a terraced house and on the rear of it we own a row of garages and also the access land in the front of them - we park our cars on the land in front of our garages. Our 2 neighbours' land ends at the back yard gate, however, they have foot access over our land to get into their back yards.
A new tenant has moved into the property next door and she has a young son.
Young children come to our neighbours house to call for her child and they call on their scooters, bikes etc. My new car now has 3 scratches down the side and I have asked the children not to ride bikes, scoot through our parked cars, explaining to them if they scratch them it will cost a lot of money to get them fixed etc etc.
This has been happening now for around 6 weeks and I am tired of constantly telling them several times a day, I ask them and then not 5 mins later they are doing it again.
The final straw came when my sister caught 2 of them actively 'scaring' my ponies (which are kept in 2 of the converted garages) - she moved them on and then, not 20 mins later, they were doing it again!! I called the parents of one of the children and they cut the phone off from ringing (it was a mobile) and didn't bother to answer the landline. I then told their child off.
Since then, the husband has verbally attacked me whilst I was out walking my dogs, both my sister and I have had our new cars 'keyed' and 'someone' has made a totally 'false' complaint to environmental health saying that I swill the stables out (and horse urine) where the children play!! EH visited our property and never left a card - I only found out from one of my neighbours as they had seen the man who visited. I then phoned them, as I suspected that it would be a childish retaliation from my neighbours.
These children play on the vehicular right of way constantly - as the parents can't be bothered to take them anywhere - and they have taken to jumping out in front of cars that are travelling (albeit, no very fast)down this way.
I am now wondering what I can do to stop these children from being such a nuisance as I obviously can't rely on the parents to be responsible for where their children are or what they are doing. My mum heard one of their Mums telling their offspring they "could go anywhere they wanted" - including scooting around my mums car on her drive (which isn't on the r.o.w - it is just not fenced off).
Sorry if I sound like a stick in the mud or anti-children - I am not - I just don't see why I should have to put up with feral children damaging my car when it is on our own property. Their parents park their cars around the front on the public road - so no chance of them playing around their cars!!
Apologies for the long post but this is becoming a nightmare!!I am thinking of installing CCTV so if my car gets damaged again I can see the culprit and bring the parents to book. :rant:
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